10x10 Urban Sketching Workshops

Want to improve your sketching skills, learn key concepts and challenge yourself with a new skill in a fun supportive atmosphere of a workshop? Click here to learn about new series of workshops happening at iconic Portland locations and cover such area as such subjects as color, line, texture, composition, perspective, human proportion, sketching crowds, story telling, picture planes, panoramas, complicated interior angles, scale, as well as overcoming common issues and obstacles when it comes to sketching on location.

International Symposium Porto 2018

The 9th Urban Sketchers Symposium is in Porto, Portugal, on July 18-21, 2018. Registration for workshops (if you already registered for one of the workshops passes) starts Saturday, March 3, 2018. More info...

about Urban Sketchers

Urban Sketchers is a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the artistic, storytelling and educational value of location drawing, promoting its practice and connecting people around the world who draw on location where they live and travel.

Sketchers from the Portland area share their drawings on this blog.

By making a donation to our nonprofit you'll be supporting the work of urban sketchers around the world and helping our community grow.

Our Manifesto1. We draw on location, indoors or out, capturing what we see from direct observation.2. Our drawings tell the story of our surroundings, the places we live and where we travel.3. Our drawings are a record of time and place.4. We are truthful to the scenes we witness.5. We use any kind of media and cherish our individual styles.6. We support each other and draw together.7. We share our drawings online.8. We show the world, one drawing at a time.

The Urban Sketchers logo was created by Italian graphic designer Franco Lancio.